Forwarding a note from Dr. B regarding hardware upgrade for Rootsweb... >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Subject: New Hardware at RootsWeb! >Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:14:24 -0700 >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] > > > >Last week RootsWeb bought a Cisco 4500M router, which will let us >use up to 8 T1s at our main network operations center. This gives >us room to grow and, perhaps more importantly, will enable is to get >even more clever about working around problems out in The Net's core >mesh. > >[ I'm not going to do the canonical beg and grovel for folks to > consider becoming RootsWeb Members, but I will note in passing > that buying the new router did put quite a dent in our budget ... ] > >Anyway, late Wednesday night we'll be installing the 4500 router. >We'll also be replacing our old ethernet hubs with a hairy Bay >Networks ethernet switch, which will enable us to bring more servers >online and work around problems more rapidly. > >There will probably be a number of very brief interruptions as we >cut over to the new router and switch, and there is the possibility >of as much as a 2-3 hour down if we have any interesting problems. > > ### > >As many of you know, we tried to bring up a new search engine server >two weeks ago but discovered it was prone to crashing when we placed >a full production load on it. In the last two weeks we've built >another server and made various adjustments on the unstable beast. > >Over the next few days we will be doing production tests on both the >new boxes. During the tests, you may see the 1998 archives be >available at some times and not available at others. Crashes may >occur. > >In any case, please don't announce the new archives even if they are >available online for several days. When we're sure that we have a >new search engine server running well, we'll announce that fact to >this audience and you can, in turn, announce it to your subscribers >and users. > > ### > >Wish us luck with the upgrades, and please be patient as we get >everything installed and tuned. Cheers, B. > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 [email protected] >